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[House  op  Rbpresentative3,  No.  342.] 

HOUSE  OF  REPRE^^ENTATIVES,  Jan.   20,    1865.— Laid  on 
the  table,  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Herbbrt,  from  Committee  on  Claims. 


A.   BILL 

To  be  entitled  An  Act  providing  for  the  auditing  and   payiaent  of 
properly  authenticated  claims. 

1  Whereas,  Under  authority   of  Lt.  Gen.  E.  Kirby  Smith,  com- 

2  manding  the  Trans-Mississippi  Military  Department,  large  quan- 

3  titles  of  cotton  have  been  purchased  for  the  use  of  the  Confed- 

4  eiate  States  by  W.  J.  Hutchins,  appointed  for  that  purpose,  for 

5  which  certificate  s  have  been  given,  providing  that  payment  should 

6  be  made  as  Congress  might  thereafter  prescribe.     And  wherb- 

7  AS,  Said  daims  cannot  be  paid  without  the  sanction  of  Congress, 

8  according  to  the  terms  of  the  contract,  Therefore, 

1  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 

2  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  do  cause  all  such  claims  for 

3  cotton  sold  and  delivered   to  the   said  W.  J.  JIutchins,  for  the 

4  use  of  the   Confederate  States,  to  be  examined  and  audited  by 

5  the  proper  accounting  officer  of  the  Trans-Mississippi  Depart- 

6  ment,  according  to  such   regulations  as  he   may  deem  just  and 

7  proper,  and  that  there  be  paid  therefor  just  compensation,  out 

8  of  any  funds  appropriated  thereto. 


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